The Urantia Book-- Part IV. The Life And Teachings
Of JesusPAPER 120: Section 1.
The Seventh Bestowal Commission

P1325:3,120:1.1
"My Creator brother, I am about to witness your seventh and final universe
bestowal. Most faithfully and perfectly have you executed the six previous
commissions, and I entertain no thought but that you will be equally triumphant
on this, your terminal sovereignty bestowal. Heretofore you have appeared
on your bestowal spheres as a fully developed being of the order of your choosing.
Now you are about to appear upon Urantia, the disordered and disturbed planet
of your choice, not as a fully developed mortal, but as a helpless babe. This,
my comrade, will be a new and untried experience for you. You are about to
pay the full price of bestowal and to experience the complete enlightenment
of the incarnation of a Creator in the likeness of a creature. P1325:4,120:1.2
"Throughout each of your former bestowals you have voluntarily chosen to subject
yourself to the will of the three Paradise Deities and their divine interassociations.
Of the seven phases of the will of the Supreme you have in your previous bestowals
been subject to all but the personal will of your Paradise Father. Now that
you have elected to be wholly subject to your Father's will throughout your
seventh bestowal, I, as the personal representative of our Father, assume
the unqualified jurisdiction of your universe for the time of your incarnation.
P1325:5,120:1.3
"In entering upon the Urantia bestowal, you have voluntarily divested yourself
of all extraplanetary support and special assistance such as might be rendered
by any creature of your own creation. As your created sons of Nebadon are
wholly dependent upon you for safe conduct throughout their universe careers,
so now must you become wholly and unreservedly dependent upon your Paradise
Father for safe conduct throughout the unrevealed vicissitudes of your ensuing
mortal career. And when you shall have finished this bestowal experience,
you will know in very truth the full meaning and the rich significance of
that faith-trust which you so unvaryingly require all your creatures to master
as a part of their intimate relationship with you as their local universe
Creator and Father. P1326:1,120:1.4
"Throughout your Urantia bestowal you need be concerned with but one thing,
the unbroken communion between you and your Paradise Father; and it will be
by the perfection of such a relationship that the world of your bestowal,
even all the universe of your creation, will behold a new and more understandable
revelation of your Father and my Father, the Universal Father of all. Your
concern, therefore, has only to do with your personal life on Urantia. I will
be fully and efficiently responsible for the security and unbroken administration
of your universe from the moment of your voluntary relinquishment of authority
until you return to us as Universe Sovereign, confirmed by Paradise, and receive
back from my hands, not the vicegerent authority which you now surrender to
me, but, instead, the supreme power over, and jurisdiction of, your universe.
P1326:2,120:1.5
"And that you may know with assurance that I am empowered to do all that I
am now promising (knowing full well that I am the assurance of all Paradise
for the faithful performance of my word), I announce to you that there has
just been communicated to me a mandate of the Ancients of Days on Uversa which
will prevent all spiritual jeopardy in Nebadon throughout the period of your
voluntary bestowal. From the moment you surrender consciousness, upon the
beginning of the mortal incarnation, until you return to us as supreme and
unconditional sovereign of this universe of your own creation and organization,
nothing of serious import can happen in all Nebadon. In this interim of your
incarnation, I hold the orders of the Ancients of Days which unqualifiedly
mandate the instantaneous and automatic extinction of any being guilty of
rebellion or presuming to instigate insurrection in the universe of Nebadon
while you are absent on this bestowal. My brother, in view of the authority
of Paradise inherent in my presence and augmented by the judicial mandate
of Uversa, your universe and all its loyal creatures will be secure during
your bestowal. You may proceed upon your mission with but a single thought
-- the enhanced revelation of our Father to the intelligent beings of your
universe. P1326:3,120:1.6
"As in each of your previous bestowals, I would remind you that I am recipient
of your universe jurisdiction as
brother-trustee. I exercise all authority
and wield all power in your name. I function as would our Paradise Father
and in accordance with your explicit request that I thus act in your stead.
And such being the fact, all this delegated authority is yours again to exercise
at any moment you may see fit to requisition its return. Your bestowal is,
throughout, wholly voluntary. As a mortal incarnate in the realm you are without
celestial endowments, but all your relinquished power may be had at any time
you may choose to
reinvest yourself with universe authority. If you should
choose to reinstate yourself in power and authority, remember, it will be
wholly for personal reasons since I am the living and supreme pledge
whose presence and promise guarantee the safe administration of your universe
in accordance with your Father's will. Rebellion, such as has three times
occurred in Nebadon, cannot occur during your absence from Salvington on this
bestowal. For the period of the Urantia bestowal the Ancients of Days have
decreed that rebellion in Nebadon shall be invested with the automatic seed
of its own annihilation. P1326:4,120:1.7
"As long as you are absent on this final and extraordinary bestowal, I pledge
(with Gabriel's co-operation) the faithful administration of your universe;
and as I commission you to undertake this ministry of divine revelation and
to undergo this experience of perfected human understanding, I act in behalf
of my Father and your Father and offer you the following counsel, which should
guide you in the living of your earth life as you become progressively self-conscious
regarding the divine mission of your continued sojourn in the flesh: